patrician

Example Sentences

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The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

From The Wall Street Journal

Both ski, for crying out loud, a pastime with patrician associations, like equestrian sports or loudly firing the help.

From Salon

“My dear, you know exactly what I mean,” the grandmother responds, blinking at Saskia “with her small, patrician eyes,” Beverly-Whittemore writes.

From New York Times

In the first half of that century, it had transformed from a patrician society run by the propertied into a rough-and-tumble one in which nearly all white men could vote.

From New York Times

It’s about seven semi-distinguished old men: Waspy geezers, with walkers and heart conditions, the last living trustees of a patrician boys’ academy that closed more than three decades earlier.

From New York Times